I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere… — William Somerset Maugham
I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.
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